Most conventional systems have a single sensor that looks at the UV lamp through layers of quartz and water. The sensor does not know whether an alarm was triggered by fouled quartz, poor water quality, lamp temperature, or drop in lamp intensity. It is up to the operator to use trial and error to find the problem.

Changing lamps in a conventional UV system is difficult since it requires a lot of space around the unit to remove the lamp from the quartz tube, and the fragile quartz can break adding more system down-time.

Crossfire Technology has an easy-open chamber design with air-mounted lamps for fast lamp changes with no risk of breaking the quartz.